Dazzling pictures of Orion Nebula captured from a back garden in Germany
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | April 10, 2013 22:28
A German astrophotographer has captured a dazzling image of the Orion Nebula from his back garden.
The image show swirls of vivid colours in the star-forming region of the nebula which are created by the release of oxygen and hydrogen gases.
The beautiful image is impressive, but Mr Wittich does admit that it has been processed using computer software including CCDStack, PixInsight and Photoshop.
Mr Wittich told SPACE.com: ‘The weather was not very good this winter, so it took a few nights to catch the data.’
The Orion Nebula, also known as M42, is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion’s Belt in the constellation of Orion.
It is 1,500 light years away from Earth and is believed to be 24 light years wide.
The nebula can be seen with the naked eye near the constellation Orion.
It is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth and has a mass about 2000 times that of the sun.
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